A LOUGHBOROUGH resident’s garden is to become an open air art gallery for the weekend.

Janet Currie is set to open up her garden at 134 Herrick Road from noon-4pm on June 15-16 as part of the National Gardens Festival, which will see more than 800 private properties opened to the public across the country.

And as part of the charity open garden with tea, cakes and plants for sale, Janet has invited local artists to join her to exhibit their work around her plot as well.

She said: “Artists and craftspeople are displaying their work for sale on specially made ‘bird-tables’ placed among the plants, on trellis along the garden walls, in the apple tree, the greenhouse, in the shed, or among the beans growing up and over the frames in the vegetable garden, as well as anywhere else that works for both the garden and the artwork.

“The art and craft selected has an outdoors or gardening theme, and there’ll also be some curious things happening in the shed.”

Art and crafts on show and for sale will include paintings, prints, ceramics, hand-made body and bath products and textiles, plus Ray-guns on Saturday and a Synchronised Swimming Peg Doll display on Sunday.